The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

Join Pete and Jesse as they discuss how organizations are often super interested in their AWS spend but tend to overlook the costs of the engineers charged with managing AWS resources, why engineers are afflicted by operational FOMO and how that holds them back, why Jesse believes more organizations should leverage managed resources instead of doing everything in-house, how Pete can tell whether you’re running Elasticsearch or Cassandra just by looking at your network data transfer line item, the risks you expose yourself to when you have engineers manage AWS infrastructure instead of letting AWS do that natively, why you should use EC2 right away if you’re lifting and shifting and how it should be the last service you set up when you’re a brand-new company opening up shop in the cloud, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of February 24, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 22, 2021. with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they continue the Unconventional Guide to AWS Cost Savings with a look at “code smell,” where the term comes from, and what it means. They also touch upon the important role context plays in understanding costs and usage impacts, how you’re eventually going to have to rearchitect your application when you achieve scale and how that should influence your thinking, why you should run proof of concept projects when you’re not sure how much something is going to cost in the cloud, how lifting and shifting can actually increase costs, an easy way to make sure you’re not storing data unnecessarily, why you should consider implementing lifecycle policies for data, why Pete loves intelligent tiering, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of February 17, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 15, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they take a question from the field and talk about their experiences optimizing big data projects in the cloud. They touch upon how big data challenges are challenging whether you’re talking about terabytes or petabytes, the most popular services for big data projects in AWS, how people are essentially digital hoarders today and never throw any data out, why Pete believes more people should take advantage of Glacier Deep Archive, tricks for optimizing Parquet files, what the Kinesis outage meant for many Duckbill Group clients, why you may need to rethink your approach to compression, how Jesse thinks not enough clients use spot instances, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of February 11, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 8, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they talk about the prohibitively expensive costs associated with moving data in the cloud. They touch upon how data transfer is so expensive in AWS and how many people don’t realize it when they first migrate, how data transfer costs in data centers have always been hidden, the role context plays in data transfer and why it’s important to know how and why data is moved around, the questions you need to ask yourself to figure out why data is moving within AWS, why you should rope legal into the process when figuring out how data transfers across your cloud environment, Pete’s gripes about the NAT gateway service, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of February 3, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 1, 2021 with Corey Quinn.